boredpuppy08
Posted : 3/24/2009 7:07:16 PM
The dogs have been evaluated, one min pin can be worked with so he's going to stay. No rescue will take Rupert, believe me I've tried. There is a lot more to the situation... it's a mess. It actually started years ago when I was 13, rupert was only a pup 4-5 months old. Or next door neighbor loved his yard, I was a good kid and mindful of property lines but somehow he thought I was intentionally letting my dog go to the bathroom in his yard, actually it was all the feral cats in the area and so one day I was walking back from the park to find a shotgun leveled at Rupert and this man shouting at me... the police came and it was a huge mess. That guy vacated and finally sold his house 6 months ago, and we found out a month ago it was sold to his grandson. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. That guy and his girlfriend are intentionally causing problems, serious threats of poision have been made. Rupert's already got some liver/kidney stuff going on, if he were to eat poision he doesn't have any youthful resiliance to get him through it. We check the yard, but don't know if we can find everything. It's truely insane, our dogs haven't been off our property in months and not at all while this guy has lived here... we put in a brand new fence last year because other neighbors moved in with a dog and all that and it was getting loose and that pretty much solved the problem then. I have no idea why this is happening, we haven't done anything wrong, we don't let the dogs out till 8 am and don't let them out later than 10, they don't stay out more than 10 minutes at a time and we are always mindful and supervise them, they're securely fenced, yet the malice this neighbor has toward us. I posted a while back about a near accident with another neighborhood kid who wandered unattended up to our property, maybe it wasn't no big deal like they told me at the time and this is actually a coordinated attempt to get our dogs out of the neighborhood. Basically any time our dogs are out, the girl friend next door comes out with her loose dog and kid and lets them play right on the property line, then pretends she doesn't notice when the dog runs over to fence fight so the kid gets all upset and tries to come get the pug and I go yell at OUR dogs to get in the house then she comes over screaming at me - this has happened 4 times now, and makes a huge deal of checking her son for bite marks all the while screaming at us. I don't mean to be paranoid but it's obvious we're being set up for something.
My parents made a serious mistake with the oldest female min pin Doodle, she shouldn't have been bred and over time her horrible temperment has gotten much much worse, as has that of her daughter and the stress those two are living with on a daily basis even separated(we're doing crate and rotate) is truely inhumane. Those two will bite humans if cornered i don't know about if someone sticks a hand in the fence and we can't afford to find out, rescues will not take and rehome dogs with such poor temperments who attack everything in sight. Sometimes they're great little dogs, playful, we've worked really hard as a family being calm and learning ways to diffuse tension between the dogs so there was a period of about 5 months when we had not one single fight, but this fighting with the neighbors has caused some serious tensions and injuries. A week ago Doodle got bit by her daughter through a gate that her daughter ate through in about 3 minutes in the house while the woman was here and rupert/toy were outside with me, doodle got bit on the muzzle near the eye and had to have it lanced so now she's got this horrible wound on her face. We're working closely with the vet and a trainer and both think the situation can't be helped, the dogs are suffering.
Or pack has degenerated into a mess again when things were going really well for a while, our lives are hell. The dogs are feeling the stress certainly, and when the woman comes over raving the dogs get into fights with one another, mainly rupert's sister jumps on him so first time in his life he's had to have stitches. We tried doing one to two dogs out at a time only, she still came over.
I probably deserve the troll comment, I feel like one. I would do anything for our dogs but I don't know what else to do nor do my parents, even the trainer said we're working with a massive dynamic. My father is... on meds. He can't deal with the stress he'll have a breakdown. So we've got no choice but to have the dogs put down, lovingly in their own home as humanely as possible.
The police have made it clear they've got to hear the threats and see what's going on before they'll do anything. The woman can see when I've got a camera in my hand and she doesn't dare pull her crap then.
Thanks Ron2 I'll see tomorrow about insurance.
EDIT: I realised I left out the whole mention of the gate situation. The gate on the fence has one of those u shaped lift up latches adn we've kept a caribiner clip on it so the dogs can't lift it up by accident even though they've never shown an inclination to, a few days ago I walked out to check the yard first thing in the morning and the gate was wide open, clip had been clipped back on the gate but there was *no way* that gate could have come open it's self. We bought a brand new padlock and put that on the gate, it completely dissappeared the same night and once again the gate was sitting wide open. If our dogs had just been let out like we used to they would have gotten loose... if they'd run at someone especially the neighbors I have no doubt a gun would have appeared and dogs would have been shot, even by police. That's a huge factor in this as well.